Savannah River Lumber Co. v. Bush

Clara Bush filed a claim, under the workmen’s compensation act, against Savannah River Lumber Company, as employer, for compensation for the death of her husband, Noble Bush. Her claim having been denied by the industrial commission, and her appeal to the superior court having been sustained, the lumber company excepted.

The decedent had been engaged for a number of years in cutting timber of the lumber company and in drifting the same in rafts upon the Savannah river and its tributaries to the company’s mill at the city of Savannah. He received a compensation of $7 per thousand feet by the…